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Barguna-2
Barguna-2 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2024 by Sultana Nadira of the Awami League. Boundaries The constituency encompasses Bamna, Betagi, and Patharghata upazilas. History The constituency was created in 1984 from the Patuakhali-1 constituency when the former Patuakhali District was split into two districts: Barguna and Patuakhali. Ahead of the 2008 general election, the Election Commission redrew constituency boundaries to reflect population changes revealed by the 2001 Bangladesh census In 2001, the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics conducted a national census in Bangladesh, ten years after the 1991 census. They recorded data from all of the districts, upazilas, and main cities in Bangladesh including statistical data on populati .... The 2008 redistricting altered the boundaries of the constituency. Members of Parliament Elections Elections in the 2010s Golam Sabur Tulu died in July ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nurul Islam Moni
Nurul Islam Moni is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and the former Member of Parliament of Barguna-2. Career Moni was elected to parliament from Barguna-2 as an Independent candidate in 1988. Moni was elected to parliament from Barguna-2 as an Independent candidate in 1991. He had received 19,616 votes while Golam Kabir of Awami League came second with 13,764. Moni was elected to parliament from Barguna-2 as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate in 2001. He had received 44,014 votes while his nearest rival Md. Golam Sarowar Hiru of Awami League got 24,772. Anowar Hossain Monju of Jatiya Party came third with 19,350. He received a plot in Chittagong City from the Bangladesh Nationalist Party government. On 4 November 2007, Moni was sentenced to 14 years imprisonment in a corruption case by Barguna District court. His brother, Saiful Islam Jamal, was also sentenced to jail in the verdict. They went on the ran and surrendered to the Barguna court on 29 October 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Showkat Hasanur Rahman
Showkat Hasanur Rahman Rimon ( bn, শওকত হাচানুর রহমান রিমন) is a Bangladesh Awami League politician and the incumbent Member of Parliament from Barguna-2. Early life Rimon born on 25 November 1964. He has a bachelor's and a master's degree in science. Career Rimon was elected to Parliament in October 2017 in a by-election following the death of the incumbent Golam Sabur Tulu in a road accident. Rimon received 65,813 votes while his nearest rival Golam Sarwar Hiru of Islami Andolon Bangladesh received 57,993 votes. Hiru alleged irregularities in the voting which was denied by Rimon. Rimon elected to parliament in 2014 from Barguna-2 as a Bangladesh Awami League candidate. In March 2016, he was sued by the Bangladesh Election Commission The Bangladesh Election Commission ( bn, বাংলাদেশ নির্বাচন কমিশন), abbreviated and publicly referred to as EC, is an independent constitutional body that operat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Syed Rahmatur Rob Irtiza Ahsan
Syed Rahmatur Rob Irtiza Ahsan was a Bangladeshi politician and the former Member of Parliament of Barguna-2. Early life and family Syed Rahmatur Rob Irtiza Ahsan was born on 7th May 1937, to a Bengali Muslim ''zamindar'' family known as the ''Syeds of Bamna Upazila, Bamna'' based in Barguna District, Barguna, then located under the Backergunge District of the Bengal Presidency. His father, Syed Najmul Ahsan, was the son of Syed Abi Muhammad (d. 1951) and they traced their ancestry to Syed Mir Qadir Bakhsh, who belonged to the Syed family of Boalmari Upazila, Malidia in Faridpur District, Faridpur. Irtiza Ahsan's great grandfather, Syed Mir Sarwar Jan (d. 1914), who was Bakhsh's son, migrated to Bamna in Barisal Division, greater Barisal after marrying Azizunnesa, the daughter of Taluqdar Husayn ad-Din Chowdhury, and eventually inheriting the taluqdari of Ramna-Bamna. Ahsan's uncle Syed Ziaul Ahsan, was a speaker for the East Bengal Legislative Assembly during the United Front (Ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Golam Sabur Tulu
Golam Sabur Tulu was a Bangladesh Awami League politician and former Member of Parliament from Barguna-2 Barguna-2 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2024 by Sultana Nadira of the Awami League. Boundaries The constituency encompasses Bamna, Betagi, and Patharghata upazilas. History T .... Career Tulu was elected to parliament from Barguna-2 as a Bangladesh Awami League candidate in 2008. Death Tulu was killed on 27 July 2013 in a road accident on Vanga in Faridpur District. References Awami League politicians 2013 deaths 9th Jatiya Sangsad members Road incident deaths in Bangladesh People from Barguna district {{AwamiLeague-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sultana Nadira
Sultana Nadira is a Bangladeshi politician who was elected as member of parliament from Barguna-2. Earlier, she served as Member of 11th Jatiya Sangsad of Reserved Seats for Women. She is a politician of Bangladesh Awami League. Her late husband Golam Sabur Tulu Golam Sabur Tulu was a Bangladesh Awami League politician and former Member of Parliament from Barguna-2 Barguna-2 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2024 by Sultana Nadira of the Aw ... was an MP from her same constituency. References Living people Awami League politicians 11th Jatiya Sangsad members People from Barguna district Politicians from Barisal Division Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century Bangladeshi women politicians Women members of the Jatiya Sangsad 12th Jatiya Sangsad members {{AwamiLeague-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Golam Sarwar Hiru
Golam Sarwar Hiru is an Islami Oikya Jote politician and the former Member of Parliament of Barguna-2 Barguna-2 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2024 by Sultana Nadira of the Awami League. Boundaries The constituency encompasses Bamna, Betagi, and Patharghata upazilas. History T .... Career Hiru was elected to parliament from Barguna-2 as an Islami Oikya Jote candidate in 1996. In the 7th Jatiya Sangshad session, he was the sole representative of Islami Oikya Front. He was threatened with expulsion for breaking party discipline. References Islami Oikya Jote politicians Living people 7th Jatiya Sangsad members Year of birth missing (living people) {{Barisal-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2024 Bangladeshi General Election
General elections are scheduled to be held in Bangladesh in January 2024. Background The current Sangsad ( 11th) is scheduled to expire on 29 January 2024, as the first session of this parliament sat on 30 January 2019 and the tenure of a parliament lasts five years. The Awami League won the 2018 general elections and formed the government. Incumbent Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has hinted she does not intend to lead her party, the Awami League, into another election. Electoral system The 350 members of the Jatiya Sangsad consist of 300 directly elected seats using first-past-the-post voting in single-member constituencies, and an additional 50 seats reserved for women. The reserved seats are elected proportionally by the elected members. Each parliament sits for a five-year term. Parties and alliances Candidates Results Constituency-wise References {{Bangladeshi elections General Bangladesh Bangladesh (}, ), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barguna District
Barguna ( bn, বরগুনা ''Borguna'') is a district in the division of Barisal, Bangladesh. It is situated in the southern part of Bangladesh. Barguna subdivision was established in 1969 and promoted to district on 28 February 1984. History Barguna district was in the Sundarban area. In the evolution of time, people started clearing the forest by cutting down the trees and started to live here. Wood merchants used to come here to collect woods from the forest. Etymology There is not enough strong proof of naming the district. Some historians say that timber traders of the northern region came here to buy timbers and waited for the favoring flow (Baro - Gone) to overcome and from there the name "Baro-Gana" was derived. Others say that it was named after a famous Rakhine resident of this district while some say that the name came from a bawali named "Barguna" Geography The Barguna District has a total area of 1939.39 km2. It was established as a district on 28 F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2014 Bangladeshi General Election
General elections were held in Bangladesh on 5 January 2014, in accordance with the constitutional requirement that elections must take place within the 90-day period before the expiration of the term of the Jatiya Sangshad on 24 January 2014. The elections were not free and fair. They were preceded by a government crackdown on the opposition, with Bangladesh Nationalist Party and Opposition leader Khaleda Zia was put under house arrest. There were widespread arrests of other opposition members, violence and strikes by the opposition, attacks on religious minorities, and extrajudicial killings by the government, with around 21 people killed on election day. Almost all major opposition parties boycotted the elections, resulting in 153 of the total 300 seats being uncontested and the incumbent Awami League-led Grand Alliance of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina winning a landslide majority. Hasina became the first prime minister in the history of Bangladesh to be re-elected to ser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bangladesh Nationalist Party
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party ( bn, বাংলাদেশ জাতীয়তাবাদী দল, Bangladesh Jātīyotābādī Dol; BNP) is a centre-right to right-wing nationalist, political party in Bangladesh and one of the major political parties of Bangladesh. It was founded on 1 September 1978 by former Bangladeshi President Ziaur Rahman after the Presidential election of 1978, with a view of uniting the people with a nationalist ideology. Since then, the BNP won the second, fifth, sixth and eighth national elections and two Presidential elections in 1978 and 1981. The party also holds the record of being the largest opposition in the history of parliamentary elections of the country, with 116 seats in the seventh national election of June 1996. It has currently 7 MPs in parliament after 2018 general election. Although the party was initially founded on a nationalistic principle, many of its leaders want an Islamic government and its main supporters are I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2001 Bangladeshi General Election
General elections were held in Bangladesh on 1 October 2001. The 300 single-seat constituencies of the Jatiya Sangsad were contested by 1,935 candidates representing 54 parties and including 484 independents. The elections were the second to be held under the caretaker government concept, introduced in 1996. The result was a win for the Four Party Alliance of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh, Jatiya Party (Manju) and Islami Oikya Jote. BNP leader Khaleda Zia became Prime Minister. Background The Seventh Parliament headed by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was dissolved on 13 July 2001, having completed its designated 5-year term (the first parliamentary administration to ever do so) and power was transferred to the caretaker government headed by Justice Latifur Rahman. Electoral system In 2001, the 345 members of the Jatiya Sangsad consisted of 300 seats directly elected by first-past-the-post voting in single-member constituencies, and 45 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Islami Oikya Jote
The Islami Oikya Jote ( bn, ইসলামী ঐক্য জোট, ''Islami Oikko Joţ'', "Islamic Unity Front") is a political party in Bangladesh and is allied with the Four Party Alliance. History During the legislative elections of 1 October 2001, the party won 2 out of 300 elected members in an alliance with the Bangladesh Nationalist Party. It was led by Mufti Fazlul Huq Amini and Azizul Haq. In 2013, the party called upon its community to «severe ties» with atheists and the enemies of Islam, and to take it out in the streets to «foil conspiracies against Islam», and specifically asked the media not to associate this announcement with any other Islamic party whatsoever. A 2015 article in the journal ''Prothom Alo'' stated that the party had been inactive «in recent years». The spokesperson of the party said most of the party's activity happens over the phone. In January 2016 Islami Oikya Jote Chairman Abdul Latif Nezami announced to quit BNP-led 20-party all ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
